As soon as Philando Castile's mother Valerie heard last week that a Minnesota jury had acquitted Jeronimo Yanez, she stood up and declared "f*** this!" and left the courtroom. That's according to Minnesota Public Radio reporter Riham Feshir, who was there, and talked to Code Switch about it for this week's episode.That trial ended Friday after five days of deliberations with a not guilty verdict for Yanez, the officer who fatally shot Castile as he sat in a car on July 6 of last year.As NPR's David Schaper reported, "It really came down to whether the jury believed Yanez when he testified that he was scared for his life and thought Castile was grabbing for his gun as he sat in that car."As millions of people witnessed on Facebook, Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, captured the moments after the shooting in a live video stream as Castile sat slumped and bleeding in the front seat. Reynolds' four-year-old daughter was in the back."The system continues to fail black people, and it will continue to fail you all," Valerie Castile told a crowd outside the courthouse. "My son loved this city and this city killed my son. And the murderer gets away. Are you kidding me right now?"Yanez had said he believe Castile was reaching for a gun that was in the car, and one of his lawyers told The Associated Press that the defense was "satisfied" with the verdict.Hundreds of people took to the streets of St. Paul on Friday to protest.Castile's death reverberated with a nation already reeling from a series of fatal shootings of black men by police. Such incidences have continued this year: So far in 2017, according to The Washington Post's shooting database, 112 black people have been fatally shot by police officers, including Charleena Lyles in Seattle; Desmond Phillips in Chico, Calif.; and Jordan Edwards in Balch Springs, Texas.As the news of the acquittal spread, we thought it would be worthwhile to revisit some of the compelling writing about these shootings over the past year.Last July, Jezebel's Kara Brown wrote about the repetitive, exhausting nature of the deaths: